Katharine Hepburn's former home in Connecticut

Katharine Hepburn is one of cinema’s most acclaimed actors but her lifelong home is for sale at a discount after languishing for years on the market.

The Connecticut mansion, which the four-time Oscar winner called her paradise and where she lived until her death in 2003, aged 96, is on offer again at a reduced price of $14.8 million.

The 770-square-metre home in the picturesque seaside borough of Fenwick was designed and built by the Hollywood legend in 1939 and has six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a private beach, pond and dock, and water views from most rooms.